About Me:

I'm a second year graduate student in the C.S department at University of Wisconsin, Madison. I work with Prof Aditya Akella, my advisor, on networking and systems projects. Prior to starting graduate school, i was in boston working as a back-end software-engineer/release engineer for a start-up called Open Ratings which later got acquired by Dun & Brad St.

Research:

My General Research interest lie within systems and networks but my most recent work has been along the management and wireless dimensions of Internet architecture.
  • Complexity In Enterprise Networks:Developing models that capture and quantify the complexity faced by network operators as they manage the configuration of an enterprise network. [Joint work with Dave Maltz @ MSR]
  • Proactive Fault Detection In Enterprise Networks: Designing a framework that automatically detects static and dynamic problems in enterprise devices. [Joint work with Sambit SahuIBMR]

COURSE WORK:

Interesting classes that i've taken include:

  • Advanced Operating Systems
  • Advanced Networking
  • Wireless Networking
  • Machine Learning
  • Compilers & Java Byte Code

CV:

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Contact:

Theophilus A. Benson
1307 Spring St, #303
Madison, WI 53715
(617)642-6110
tbenson [at] cs [dot] wisc [dot] edu